The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the BibleThe early Semitic T evolved to the letter T in the middle Semitic scripts. The letter
continued to evolved into the T in the late Semitic script. This letter evolved into the T
and 4 (final pey) in the modern Hebrew script. The middle Semitic T became the Greek
Π and the Latin P.
TSAD..........................................................................................................................
The three Ancient pictograph possibilities for this letter are , and]. The word
"tsad" means "side" as a man lying on his side and may be the meaning of the last two
pictographs. Most ancient Semitic alphabets used pictographs which closely resemble
the last pictograph indicating that this was most likely the original form of the letter.
The meaning of this letter is the side of something as well as hunting and chasing
through the idea of laying down in ambush. The modern name for this letter is tsade, a
child root from the word tsad also meaning side. The phonetic sound of the letter is a
"ts" in both ancient and modern Hebrew.
The early pictograph ] evolved into ] in the Middle Semitic script and continued to
evolve into ] in the Late Semitic Script. From the middle Semitic script comes the
Modern Hebrew = and ]. Modern Greek and Latin has no letter derived from this
Semitic letter.
QUPH.........................................................................................................................
Most of the pictographs used for this letter are or. Ancient Semitic letter which
were originally oriented in a horizontal plane were tilted to a vertical plane. More than
likely this letter was originally written as U.
The name of this letter is quph, a parent root. When all of the words derived from this
parent root are compared the common theme of a circle or revolution are found. The
pictograph of this letter is probably a picture of the sun at the horizon in the sense of a
revolution of the sun.
The various meanings of this letter are sun, revolution, circle and horizon. This letter
can also mean condense as the light gathers at the sun when it is at the horizon. It can
also mean time as the revolution of the sun is used to calculate time. Hebrew, Greek